One of the good security features that Twitter has enabled is that it resets a user’s password if it believes that his account has been compromised. Interestingly enough, the micro-blogging website recently reset the password of a large number of users, unintentionally.

We already know Barack Obama won for the 2nd term as US President. But a lot of people was yelling at Twitter with status like If ____ Win “I’m Moving to Canada”. At some point this status got viral and almost everybody starts tweeting – so-something-someing or I’m Moving to Canada. Here we have a collection of tweets before and after the result.

It is hard to discern how can one find a whole lot of analytics in a sentence as small as 140 characters. But apparently, the companies who are spending money on Twitter-based advertising need to know such analytics. Track Social has now revealed an interesting Twitter metric, which shows the optimal length for a tweet to be retweeted.

If you live in country such as Iran, China or Pakistan where certain web sites are blocked by their Government, then this tutorial is for you because I will show you how to use an extensions called ProxMate for your Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox web browser and gain access to websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Google Play, etc…

Twitter has become one of the most significant parts of the social media. The micro-blogging website has been able to capture people’s hearts with features such as ‘Favorite’ and ‘Discover.’ However, the ‘Favorite’ feature may soon vanish as reports surface that Twitter is testing out new ‘Star’ and ‘Like’ buttons.

Microsoft is going to launch its flagship Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablets on October 26. The company decided to sell Surface tablet starting at $499 and started taking pre-orders for Surface RT at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time from October 16 at surface.com. But in less than 24 hours after Microsoft started taking pre-orders for Surface RT, the tablets went sold out. And the delivery is been delayed.

Micro blogging site Twitter has blocked an account in Germany for the first time because the German police asked Twitter to restrict that account’s access by a neo-Nazi group. The move was spotted by the FT. Details inside.

Twitter has been actively trying to expand the scope of its services and do the same work that a number of developers have tried doing by building on its API. Now that the company has greatly limited access to its API, it is indeed in a great position to build on Twitter by dishing out its own web apps. Probably to that end, the micro-blogging site has now acquired the app-maker startup, Cabana.

Popular mobile photo-editing platform, Instagram, attracted a whopping 7.3 million daily US users to its mobile-platform application during the month of August 2012. Further down on the comScore Mobile Metrix 2.0 ratings is Twitter, who only saw 6.9 million daily US users. While briefing down the list, these are two all-time high records for the two social networks, and also the first time Instagram has passed up Twitter on the daily user rankings.

Anticipation around HTC’s rumored 5-inch phablet (phone+tablet) is high. We have seen a number of rumored images and specification of the device so far. On Monday, HTC modder and XDA-developers forum member “Football” has tweeted a new set of specifications of the rumored 5-inch HTC DLX phablet.

Twitter has added a new feature that allows you to customize your profile header background image. With this new feature you can customize your profile page as you wish and make it more unique. Continue reading this tutorial to find out how to access this option and customize your own profile header.

Today, I want to share some keyboard shortcuts that makes my life on Twitter a lot easier. Although there are not too many of them, they can be quite useful. For example, I can send direct messages or add tweets to favorites without having to raise my hands from the keyboard. And, I will tell you about 5 of the most useful Twitter keyboard shortcuts.

RxPatrol is a program that keeps track of all the pharmacy crimes that take place throughout the U.S. As soon as a crime becomes known to RxPatrol, it issues an update to the law enforcement agencies so that they could look into the matter. Now, the program is coming to Twitter through the handle @RxPATROL.

Tech companies often hire hackers so that they could use their skills to devise better security measures. This often works since it takes a close knowledge of vulnerabilities to be able to patch them – and these hackers know them very well. One such hacker, Charlie Miller, has become a part of Twitter’s security team now.

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